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Title: My Silence Cannot Be Bought, By Beverly Eckert
Source: USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-13-eckert-opinion_N.htm
Published: Feb 17, 2009
Author: USA Today
Post Date: 2009-02-17 00:15:03 by TwentyTwelve
Keywords: Beverly Eckert, 911
Views: 382
Comments: 7

My Silence Cannot Be Bought

By Beverly Eckert

This piece by Beverly Eckert was originally published on Friday, December 19, 2003, and ran on the Opinion page.

I've chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.

I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.

The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgement by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires still smoldered.

And this liability cap protects not just the airlines, but also World Trade Center builders, safety engineers and other defendants.

The caps on liability have consequences for those who want to sue to shed light on the mistakes of 9/11. It means the playing field is tilted steeply in favor of those who need to be held accountable. With the financial consequences other than insurance proceeds removed, there is no incentive for those whose negligence contributed to the death toll to acknowledge their failings or implement reforms. They can afford to deny culpability and play a waiting game.

By suing, I've forfeited the "$1.8 million average award" for a death claim I could have collected under the fund. Nor do I have any illusions about winning money in my suit. What I do know is I owe it to my husband, whose death I believe could have been avoided, to see that all of those responsible are held accountable. If we don't get answers to what went wrong, there will be a next time. And instead of 3,000 dead, it will be 10,000. What will Congress do then?

So I say to Congress, big business and everyone who conspired to divert attention from government and private-sector failures: My husband's life was priceless, and I will not let his death be meaningless. My silence cannot be bought.

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#1. To: wudidiz (#0)

Officers begin to remove victim remains from Buffalo crash site

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-02-17   0:17:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: wudidiz (#0)

9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORY - Bumper Sticker

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-02-17   0:20:12 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: TwentyTwelve, Artisan, Original_Intent, all (#0)

9/11 widow Beverly Eckert killed in Buffalo plane crash
The odds of a married couple dying in two separate plane crashes seven years apart are roughly something like 1 in 1.15 million to the 1.15 millionth power... or approximately the same as the odds of the Detroit Lions winning the Super Bowl.


"It is like a trance. So what can break a trance? The only thing that can break the trance is the light of truth."
~ Canadian Philosopher John McMurtry as he comments on the psychological warfare that has afflicted us all

wudidiz  posted on  2009-02-17   1:30:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: wudidiz (#3)

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2009-02-17   2:03:09 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)

Good show, Beverly ... fuck the NWO and their JEW lawyers attempting to stifle truth and justice.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.

Henry David Thoreau - 1849

noone222  posted on  2009-02-17   2:31:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: wudidiz (#3)

or approximately the same as the odds of the Detroit Lions winning the Super Bowl.

that's funny

christine  posted on  2009-02-17   13:50:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: wudidiz (#3)

The odds of a married couple dying in two separate plane crashes seven years apart are roughly something like 1 in 1.15 million to the 1.15 millionth power...

that's exactly what I thought too. what b.s. it all is., what a shame. the fact that she met obama rightr beforehand, do you think the elite were sending some sort of message to truthers?

Glory to God in the highest, and Peace to His people on Earth.
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

Artisan  posted on  2009-02-19   21:27:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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